What to feed to Mandarin

[YzF]

Needed help to feed Mandarin. tried few stuff but dun seems to good..

Frozen Brine, live babies brine, dried food, mysis shrimps..

Anyone know how? i knows they like live small food. Is there anything i can culture or purchase?

[shiraz]

copepods... but it's hard to sustain a mandarin's diet unless yoru tank is 5 feet big and is 1 year old and the mandarin is only 4cm long

BUT, do not dispair, i've read it here sometime back that some1 succeded in getting the mandarin to take brine shrimp!

btw, u ride an R1???

[JuzzMarine]

Hi, though mine feed on frozen brine shrimp, but i remember someone here had his/hers feed on pellet food

[Achilles Tang]

It's extremely rare to get a mandarin to eat prepared foods.

Frozen brine shrimp, perhaps.

Best to provide lots of copepods for your mandarins... you can build a 'pod pile'... a small pile of rocks where fishes can't go in but your copepods can thrive inside... you have to feed them enough your tank enough to encourage their growth... feeding of DT phytoplankton will help encourage more planktonic life to blossom.

[arcanehacker]

copepods... but it's hard to sustain a mandarin's diet unless yoru tank is 5 feet big and is 1 year old and the mandarin is only 4cm long

BUT, do not dispair, i've read it here sometime back that some1 succeded in getting the mandarin to take brine shrimp!

btw, u ride an R1???

if they are feeding on copepods I have tons of them in my tank... and its only months old..

[Achilles Tang]

Pod populations will come and go.... predation means they will disappear soon unless they have the means to thrive... that is why a refugium with no fish inside would be good.

The dominant species of pods in my tank is the amphipod species now.

[AquaRa]

it would be good if there was frozen copepods.

[arcanehacker]

Pod populations will come and go.... predation means they will disappear soon unless they have the means to thrive... that is why a refugium with no fish inside would be good.

The dominant species of pods in my tank is the amphipod species now.

may I know how to tell if they are amphipod or copepods? .. they all look so small..

[YzF]

copepods? Those small, white, elongated living thing on my tank wall? i have quite a bit but dun think those can last long.. he/she not eating my brine.. seems like DT plankton is good stuff huh?

i ride a wr400.. not R1 leh..hee